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ISBN-10: 1257953583
ISBN-13: 9781257953585
LuLu, USA 2011
337 pages
Synopsis
A Non-random state of the entire universe rather than just human life and existence is not always considered in creative expression. The assembly of poems in Cosmological Tendencies is meant to confront paradox, generate humor, expose human situations from the only plausible view, from example as they are part, without exception, of a cosmos that has no parts that are 'out of this world', is a story line itself that contains and beholds itself as one beholds the stories of life that exist no other way but in the beholding, and is all that exists. I hope, poetic constructions in a 'bits and pieces' approach inherited from an academic background in the Natural Sciences, diverging to confront human paradox, will enlighten, entertain and educate to the possibility of a wall that, other than fixed and pre-existing, though immoveable, grows forwards from the conscious reflections that compose the choruses of men and women in their learnings rather than from their engagements to action. .
Prologue
Cosmological tendencies was created partly during travels around America and part as I appended studies in Philosophy and Anthropology to my education as PhD in Biochemistry . I hope, more than with the creation of imagery in poetry, that I have managed to create in words the potential to ‘see’ within the perplexities of being human and spiritual, spaces where the mind struggles for uniting concepts within a non-comprehendible reading for order of the passing of time by the senses.
The included poems, mostly written in Los Angeles during the period from 2000 to 2010, a few earlier during the 80’s as a student in New York and Baltimore, are arranged in random order with the hope to stimulate the imagination to take meaning in whatever various words or combinations within themes to produce diverse impressions, perspectives of words and ideas according to individual inclinations and creativity. In preparation for reading, a discontinuity rather than order for the assortment of meaning with regards to expression and style, changed over the course of my life and educational experiences, is deliberate so that each piece should be construed to stand on its’ own, though certain themes- i.e. regarding the questioning and irony of circumstance-may appear to thread consistently throughout. It is my ultimate hope to expand the vision, employing simplicities, to perceive a world that is ultimately more relative than constant, but certain rather than uncertain that there is not a something else ‘out of the world’ beyond the knowings and familiarities plain to vision and shared to human existence.
Excerpt
Where Your Can Hear Color
Reflected in your next
feta peta
spun and turned
and slightly burned
gourmet
sandwich special
'tween the blues
above and below
beyond
the sounds and noises,
lights and darks
of the subliminal
bourbon
blue in the moody streets
pass the wind
itself follows its' nose
leads us all
"If I knows only what to say
a day yesterday past
this tomorrow following
I'd be lying"
" If your seeking a
rhyme for your metaphors"
"I've only got rhythm for your moods"
"controlled by the rolls
if they rolling
and not if
I aint
jazzed by the blue
of the ocean I just blown by
or the blue sky above
mates senselessly
a day prior tomorrow
endlessly
far as I know"
"other I have hardly nothing to say at all
"as is true
a truth
mates nothing but itself
as the endless mate a blue
bring forth a rhyme
births a moody motion
relentlessly presses
the air to sound
for the ear."
I heard said
out of the blue
of the wind
had never
been said questioned
in this important matter
reigns above all
at the highest
and most important place
of neither here nor there
and referring
in highest of respect and regard
to pause and contemplate
during its' travels
of the world
to where I am.
Marvin E. Kirsh